Gorilla Logic Blogs

Chimp Flex 4 Update / Flex Security Framework

What is Chimp? Chimp is a simple component for doing role based permissions in Flex. It uses metadata and a generic ArrayCollection of permission strings to display the proper components for a given set of user roles. You can find more info about the project at: http://www.gorillalogic.com/chimp. Flex 4 Update Shortly after I posted Chimp in 2009, Adobe [...]

FlexLayouts.org Launches, Custom Flex 4 Layouts for the Masses

FlexLayouts is an open source library of custom Flex 4 layouts that I’ve veen working on with Gilles Guillemin. Today, I’m happy to announce the first public beta release, v0.5, is available for immediate download. The FlexLayouts Gallery will be your source for layouts, sample code, and documentation. Today’s release includes beta versions of two [...]

TerrificTabBar – Another Custom Component in Flex 4

Another day, another custom component in Flex 4. This time it’s a closeable TabBar that I’m calling TerrificTabBar, because SuperTabBar is taken. This post is basically Part 2 of my previous post on SuperTextInput. And much like that post, TerrificTabBar follows the Enhanced Component Pattern by extending TabBar and adding some new functionality. Extend TabBar [...]

SuperTextInput – Building a Custom Component in Flex 4

I’ve been building a lot of Flex 4 custom components lately, including a sliding drawer, a multiple content area container, and now SuperTextInput. Nor will this be that last, because I think I have a few more in me (update: see TerrificTabBar). I thought it would be useful to spend some time in the details, [...]

Separating drag from drop

In my previous post, I discussed separating drag-and-drop logic from view components as another tool to help achieve the cleanliness of single-responsibility classes. In this post, I’m going a step further by examining how the drag-and-drop functionality itself can be decoupled to achieve encapsulated components. This post focuses on a scenario where objects are being [...]

Building Flex 4 Containers with Multiple Content Areas

Back in the days of Flex 3, if you wanted multiple content areas in your main application, you’d need to arrange some set of containers (Canvas, HBox, VBox) in the app and fill them with content. It was just your basic Flex 3 development process. The danger, of course, is that you are mixing content [...]

The Problem With ‘Above Average Programmers’

Quick! Answer the following question without thinking about it:

How would you rate your programming skills? (Below Average, Average, or Above Average)

Based on psychological studies across many different groups, about 90% of all programmers will answer “Above Average”.

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Updated: BlazeDS & Spring Refcard

James Ward and I have updated our Dzone Refcard on using BlazeDS & Spring. You can check it out at: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/flex-4-and-spring-3

FoneMonkey – A Closer Look (Clever Tester Managazine)

Recently I was interviewed by Clever Tester about FoneMonkey. You can check it out here.

FlexMonkium is here!

We are very excited today to announce the availability of FlexMonkium, a plugin that adds FlexMonkey recording and playback to Selenium, the popular, open source, web testing framework.FlexMonkium provides for the testing of hybrid applications consist...